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From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re:  questions from using lint
Message-ID: <1544@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-May-86 13:26:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: ecsvax.1544
Posted: Mon May 12 13:26:48 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 14-May-86 07:31:37 EDT
References: <501@brl-smoke.ARPA> <797@bentley.UUCP>
Reply-To: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
Organization: Duke U Comp Ctr
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Summary: ISPF uses indentation to show structure

In article <797@bentley.UUCP> kwh@bentley.UUCP (KW Heuer) writes:
>Yet another convention, not endorsed by any language I know, is to dispense
>with the braces and let the indentation alone tell the compiler how to
>interpret the program.  (I came up with this idea after an argument on the
>"correct" place to put the braces.)

As several people have pointed out, this convention is used in some
languages.  I just wanted to point out an instance no one has mentioned
yet:  IBM's ISPF, a mainframe 3270 screen management package that
allows you to define a "panel" with associated procedural information.

You find things in the oddest places...
-- 
D Gary Grady
Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC  27706
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